Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Self learning materials

In the past few months, I've come across a number of materials that I wish I'd had found years ago. In order to grow as language learners, we must be exposed to the language in all of its occurences over and over again. So, for you, I've organized below some Japanese resources--not all of which I've tried just yet--to help round out your journey through the language.

Reading
NHK Newsweb EASY (with furigana and recordings--updated daily)
(guide to using NHK Newsweb)
Read Real Japanese Essays
Read Real Japanese Fiction

Grammar
Japanese Sentence Patterns
Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide
Tae Kim's Grammar Guide on Amazon.com
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
The Japanese Page
nihongo day by day
Barron's Grammar

Dictionary
nciku (draw the kanji with your mouse!)
Denshi Jisho
rikaichan (add-on for Mozilla Firefox)
Common Collocations 

Vocabulary
Anki (flashcard maker)
iknow
Four-character Idioms (yojijukugo)
idioms
kanji
Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters

Listening
Japan Radio Stations
NHK Radio
bitesizejapanese
Podcasts in iTunes (I've been listening to 「文化系トークラジオLife」and 「ゲンダイモンダイ」)

Speaking
Accented words
Michel Thomas Method

keigo
bunka.co.jp

JLPT
N1
N2
N3
N4
N5

Buying Books
kinokuniya
Japanese Graded Readers

Getting a Job in Japan
Gaijin Pot
Dave's ESL Cafe
jobsinjapan
Japan English Teacher
Japan~United States Friendship Commission
Living in Japan
AccessJ

Cursing in Japanese
Cursing
Making Out in Japanese

General
AJATT
Japane VISA Guide
100 Resources for Learning Japanese
Japanzine
Learnjapanese on redditt

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